East Palace.
Although extremely tired, Chen Anning and Xie Xun only slept for two hours before they both woke up.
The emperor has returned to the palace.
The prince was reading quietly on the side. When he heard the movement, he raised his eyes and asked, "You woke up so soon. Did you sleep uncomfortably?"
Xie Xun pinched his eyebrows, turned his head and glanced at Chen Anning, then said: "You arrange a guest room for her, let her take a good wash and have a rest, and have someone prepare some food. Remember to make it rich."
The prince raised his eyebrows imperceptibly and then continued his instructions.
A palace maid came forward to show Chen Anning the way.
Xie Xun reminded: "You can prescribe a few prescriptions at random first, no matter how serious it is. After you have finished prescribing, you can have a good drink and rest for two days. Don't worry about the Chen family, I will have someone come over and watch."
The prince quickly asked someone to prepare pen and ink.
After she wrote the prescription and followed the palace maid away, and the prince also arranged for someone to go to the hospital to get the medicine, he smiled and joked: "It turns out that Mr. Xie is so considerate and considerate sometimes."
Xie Xun leaned back lazily on his chair, "Why, are you envious?"
"I don't envy Miss Chen Er," the prince put down the book, stood up and came over to pour him a cup of tea. After handing it to him, he said slowly, "I envy you."
Xie Xun chuckled and said, "Are you envious of me fighting through thorns for you outside?"
"You know, I have always been envious." The prince sat down next to him and looked at the injuries on his body with admiration. "The craziest thing I have ever done is to cooperate with you and my father to lure the snake out of the cave. The plan. The emperor’s brothers fought hard for this position. If possible, I really want to give it to them. "
Xie Xun looked at him teasingly, "In this case, it's useless for you to tell me."
"I told you just because I knew it was useless." The prince smiled bitterly, "I want to tell my father and queen, and I will inevitably be talked about all the time. Okay, let's not talk about me anymore, let's talk about you and Chen Second lady."
"What's there to say?" Xie Xun asked.
"You boy, you don't know the blessings when you are young," the prince scolded with a smile, "How many of the young masters and ladies from the rich and powerful families in the capital are like you who don't have to worry about the pros and cons, and just choose the young lady you like according to your own heart? of?"
Xie Xun put down the tea cup with a smile, "Tell me, which girl did Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang choose for you?"
"Tell me first, how did you choose Miss Chen Er with your discerning eye?" the prince asked gossiping.
After Xie Xun glanced at him, he briefly told him about the Peony Banquet.
"So you like Miss Chen Er because she is as good at solving cases as you are?" The prince raised an eyebrow slightly, "Does Miss Chen Er know?"
"She can not only solve cases," Xie Xun said slowly, "she can also cure diseases and save people, poison people, and fight with me when she is unhappy."
"Are we going to fight with you?" The prince's eyes shone with envy, "Can you beat her?"
Xie Xun crossed his arms and said, "When have you ever seen me lose a fight?"
The prince said: "But she is Miss Chen Er, she can poison."
"So what?" Xie Xun snorted, "As long as the strength is strong enough, all foreign objects are paper tigers!"
"Really?" the prince said intentionally, "I will ask Miss Chen Er again when she comes over."
Xie Xun said frankly: "Just ask."
"I can't tell you this anymore." The more he spoke, the more envious he became. Why should he get all the good things by himself? After all, he is the prince of a country! After taking two deep breaths silently, the prince quickly changed the subject and asked, "What clues did Li Jingdu find this time?"
Xie Xun teased, "We'll tell you later if we find any clues. You'd better tell me which girl Uncle Huang and Aunt Huang have chosen for you this time."
The prince said quietly: "Miss Xu Si."
"A-Zan's fourth sister?" Xie Xun asked.
"That should be the case." The prince said nonchalantly, "The queen mother said that she is well-educated, gentle and gentle, and is the best candidate for the prince's concubine."
Xie Xun laughed softly, "You can't just follow what others say, even if this person is your queen mother."
The prince heard the strangeness in his words, and after his eyes moved slightly, he asked tentatively: "Do you know her?"
"We have met a few times, I guess." Xie Xun tapped the armrest of the chair and said slowly under his urging, "I don't know much about his specific temperament. But at the beginning, A-Zan was not liked by his family. , it was his fourth sister who instigated him to come to me."
"A-Zan never talks much about his brothers, but he has the highest regard for this fourth sister."
"According to him, every beating he received when he was a child was because his fourth sister instigated him to behave badly."
The prince became a little interested, "That's it, and he still admires his fourth sister so much?"
Xie Xun said casually: "Probably when everyone criticized him for being uneducated and incompetent, only his fourth sister encouraged him. It's not just that you can get ahead by studying."
"It's true that you don't just have to study to get ahead." The prince nodded in approval and then turned the topic back to his departure from Beijing.
Xie Xun looked at the spark in his eyes and wisely did not expose it. After briefly describing the findings, he asked him: "How is the investigation going?"
The prince's faintly smiling expression slowly subsided, "I really don't know if I don't check. After checking, I found that there are spies in every corner of the palace and my East Palace! Five hundred and ninety-four people, just like this, hidden in the palace and the East Palace. , lurking around my father, my mother, and me! This is just the result of checking me, the Sixth Guards of the East Palace, and the Imperial Palace. How many spies are lurking in the Sixteenth Guards of the Imperial City is still unknown!"
"But you don't have to think about it to know that there must be a lot of them!"
Although he was prepared, Xie Xun was still surprised by the number, "Five hundred and ninety-four people...do these people have flame totems on their left arms?"
"Yes." The prince said with a cold face, "So you know why my father is so cautious, right? There are so many spies with flame totems on their left arms, how many spies without flame totems are there? No one can not say it clearly."
After Xie Xun gently knocked on the armrest twice, he stood up and said: "After this, the other spies will be dormant for a while, so they are not in a hurry. I'm going to wash up, and you ask someone to prepare some food for me. I'll finish the interrogation later. People with flame totems should decide their next plan based on the situation."
The prince nodded and said, "Go."
The prince is the eldest son of the emperor and the queen, and is close to the brothers in the Guangling palace. Therefore, Xie Xun did not shy away from being in the East Palace. He took a pleasant bath in his bath, put on the clothes he had sent to him, and after having a good meal and drink, he rested.
Two days later.
He and Chen Anning had almost rested, and then they both left the East Palace.
Xie Xun went to Dali Temple.
Chen Anning returned to the Chen family.
Back at Qingzhiyuan, before even having a cup of hot tea, Mrs. Qiu came.
"You are finally back." Qiu said haggardly, "Go and see your grandmother and father. They have been poisoned for a long time and are dying."
Chen Anning sat still.
Seeing this, Ms. Qiu, who had been too tired to take care of Mrs. Chen and Chen Fanghai recently, also sat down. After asking Chunrui to give her a cup of tea, she said, "I know you just returned to Beijing and you are very tired." , but they are your grandmother and father, you can't just ignore them."
Chen Anning blew away the tea foam and slowly drank half a cup of tea before looking up at her and saying, "First of all, how did they get poisoned?"
